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...film ends, more or less, with a goofy caper that actually happened. Tobias was desperate to leave his stepfather and the high-school tough-guy character he had invented for himself. He sent off for some prep-school applications, persuaded a friend to steal high school transcript forms, wrote glowing reference letters and actually succeeded in being admitted to the prestigious Hill School in Pennsylvania. Years after he and his brother had got to know and love each other again, he admitted the scam to the somewhat more proper Geoffrey, who, profoundly shocked and sure he was seeing a reincarnation...
...lack thereof will stick out like a sore thumb. If the Harvard faculty implemented (and publicized) a strict grading policy, no one would forget how hard it is to get in here in the first place. A Harvard diploma would maintain its value, a good transcript would be an additional selling point...
...London killer who slashed his way into infamy over three months in 1888 by murdering and mutilating at least seven and perhaps as many as 14 prostitutes in the city's tawdry Whitechapel district. The published edition promises to include a facsimile of the Ripper's confessional document, a transcript and material authenticating that the book is the work of Jack himself. Bill Waddell, curator of Scotland Yard's closed archives, says, "The evidence is unique. It cannot be dismissed...
...memo suggesting the case not be appealed, Ryan called Fedorenko a "dead end" case. After reading the trial transcript, however, Ryan abruptly changed his mind and chose to prosecute...
...federal attorneys have tightened their arguments. The prosecution will call civilian eyewitnesses, who have told a grand jury that King did not attack his tormentors, as well as an L.A.P.D. use-of-force expert who testified that the kicks and blows to King were violations of department policy. A transcript has surfaced quoting police- and fire-department dispatchers as they sarcastically imply that King was being punished because he led the cops on a high-speed chase. Another difference: this time U.S. District Judge John G. Davies has reversed an earlier ruling that King's civil rights were violated only...